Original title: The Traditional Medicine and Modern Medicine from Natural Products
The paper reviews how traditional medicines and natural productsSubstances made by living things, such as chemical compounds found in plants. relate to modern medicine. It discusses eight traditional medicine systems, including Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, and Kampo. Natural products are substances from nature, such as compounds found in plants. The review says these sources offer many chemical structures and biological activities, as well as long records of clinical use, that can support the search for new drugs.
Imagine a cook choosing ingredients for a new dish. Some ingredients have been used in family recipes for generations, but many others have never been tried. In this paper, traditional medicines are the recipes with long histories of use, while natural products are the many ingredients that could be studied for new medicines.
People developing medicines can draw on long histories of clinical use and the wide range of chemicals found in nature. But the review also points to a large gap: most plant species have not been scientifically studied for their biological effects.
The abstract describes a review of literature and summarizes eight traditional medicine systems. It does not identify those systems by name beyond examples, explain how the literature was selected, or report tests showing that a particular traditional treatment works or produces a new drug.
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The Traditional Medicine and Modern Medicine from Natural Products — Hai-Dan Yuan, Qianqian Ma, Ye Li et al. — Molecules — doi:10.3390/molecules21050559
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